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About Take Charge of Change

Many children and young people with disability and their parents and caregivers have told us they often feel unprepared when engaging with ‘mainstream’, disability, health, and community services.

We have created a set of free, practical, accessible resources to empower children and young people with disability, and their families, who are facing key life changes like; starting school, moving into employment, or moving towards independent living.

The resources aim to boost people’s specialist knowledge, confidence and skills and have been co-designed with young people and families with lived experience of autism, intellectual disability, physical disability and psychosocial disability including those from rural areas, culturally diverse communities and LGBTQIA+ communities.

A teacher at a curved desk showing a young child with curly red hair a picture book about a cat while also using assistive communication on a tablet. The teacher is a black woman with rosy cheeks and hair up in a bun. Further along the desk, another young child is reading a picture book about a cat. They have dark skin and short brown hair, and they are wearing wire rimmed glasses. Bits of stationary and worksheets are scattered about the desk.
Three vector images side by side. The first is of two young people using assistive communication on their mobile devices. The person on the left is holding up a tablet and has the infinity symbol on his jacket, the one on the right has a mobile phone and purple hair. Both are smiling. The second image is a young woman with brown skin and short brown curly hair. She is using a manual wheelchair and smiling as she looks at the tablet attached to the arm of the chair. She is wearing an orange jumper and blue boots. The third image is a father and young son, both with brown skin and afros, wearing salmon coloured shirts. They are reading a yellow book together and using sign language. The son is wearing a hearing aid.